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The LA Times copy desk needs to cool it on the clickbait headlines:
The Fed says inflation is low but you don't agree. Here's why you both might be right
The motivation for the accompanying article is a recent poll showing that 44 percent of Americans don't trust the government's economic data. This, in turn, is motivated in part by Donald Trump's insistence that the Fed is keeping interest rates low to help Hillary Clinton despite the specter of massive inflation.read more

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